Comp-U-News from Comp-U-Talk

November 2016

“The only true disability in life is a bad
attitude.” ~ Scott Hamilton

We’re saying good bye to Windows 7.At the
time of this writing we still have a couple of copies left, but when they are
gone, they are gone.As of October 31, Microsoft has stopped
distribution of Windows 7 and your only choice of operating system will be
Windows 10.If you missed the announcements earlier and would
like to replace an aging computer with a new Windows 7 box, hurry in.We are expecting to sell out fast.

This is always a nostalgic time of year for me.With October almost over and November almost here, I start to think of
the holidays and everything that has to happen business wise, by end of year.I’m looking forward to Thanksgiving and Christmas.I’m
not so excited about doing physical inventory counts or estimating how much tax
liability I’m going to incur for the year.While the
politicians are throwing rocks at each other concerning how much tax they have
or have not paid, and how many loop holes they have or have not taken advantage
of, I remainin the real world.Pretty
much the only “loop hole” I get is the ability to write off the purchase of
equipment and furniture.Possibly you are in the same boat.If so, we would love to help you route money out of the tax department
hands and into ours.I assure you, we will not waste your
hard earned dollars!And I know you will love the new
computers we are offering.

Speaking of new computers, we have upgraded the guts of our
custom build systems.(Available
Here) Our Better, Best and On Steroids
systems are now utilizing Next Gen hardware and processors.
What does that mean for you?More efficient power
utilization, faster memory, new architecture but still affordable prices.We’d love to hook you up with one for Christmas or sooner.Drop in and see a demo.

And interesting, albeit scary news:you
might have heard about the Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) Attack that
happened in late October.A DDos attack is a flood of
requests to a specific server(s)that results in the server
not being able to keep up, which basically renders it dead.
The attack on October 21 took Twitter, Spotify, Netflix, Amazon, Paypal and
others off line.There’s a long and probably fairly accurate
hypothesis of what will happen if the internet goes off-line for any length of
time.You can find it here:http://tinyurl.com/z5nha7b.What I found absolutely amazing was the link they included to
http://map.norsecorp.com/#/

At this site you can watch the attacks in real time.I would call it beautiful but that seems so wrong when you realize the
pretty picture is created because people are trying to hack us!